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Joe Lieberman: “It's not a deadline for withdrawal. It's not a deadline by which we're going to pick up and go out. It's a goal.”

On the recordJune 14, 2010
It's not a deadline for withdrawal. It's not a deadline by which we're going to pick up and go out. It's a goal.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Lieberman clarifies the meaning of the July 2011 date regarding troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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